Research Software Engineer (Sr/Staff)

<div><h3>About our Company</h3><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Equilibrium Energy is revolutionizing the clean energy transition by developing innovative grid-scale energy storage solutions. Our technology and market platform helps utilities, independent power producers, and commercial customers optimize their renewable energy assets, improve grid reliability, and accelerate decarbonization. As a fast-growing climate tech company, we're building infrastructure that will shape the future of energy markets and enable a sustainable energy economy.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Equilibrium Energy is a well-funded, Series B clean energy startup backed by some of the most prominent institutional investors in climate. </span><span style="font-weight:400;">New colleagues will share our vision that a next-generation energy company must be built from the ground up on deep industry expertise combined with an unwavering commitment to modern digital approaches.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> We’re looking for collaborative, talented, passionate and resourceful folks to join our team and help us lay the foundation for our important mission and ambitious plan.</span></p></div><p><strong>What we are looking for</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Equilibrium was founded with a vision for building a company where data-centric decision-making drives our operations. Our reliance on closed-loop, ML-infused, autonomous workflow decision-making make simulating and interpreting market performance core to our success as a company. We are looking for a <strong>research software engineer</strong> who will be responsible for building software tools that allow sophisticated simulation of the physical and economic characteristics of utility-scale battery operations.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br><br></span></p><p><strong>What you will do</strong></p><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Design, develop, and maintain features for a utility-scale battery simulation platform</span></li><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Create a platform for visualizing and inspecting battery simulation results that enables actionable insights from performance and risk metrics</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Serve as a subject matter expert on simulation run mechanics and energy market logic</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Build tools for the ingestion and processing of time series data from various internal and external sources</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br><br></span></li></ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Assist in product development strategy, design, planning and productivity.</span></li><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Contribute your unique technical, user, and market knowledge to product strategy</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Contribute to product roadmapping, resource planning and sprint management</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Contribute to product development productivity improvements, including best practices, technical documentation, code reviews and automation / utility / abstraction packages.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"><br><br></span></li></ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Serve as a member of our technical team across both engineering and research.</span></li><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Collaborate asynchronously with engineers, researchers and product managers across time zones to design, build and ship code.</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Contribute to technical strategy and planning across the company.</span></li></ul></ul><p><strong>The minimum qualifications you’ll need</strong></p><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">4+ years of production software engineering experience (Python, C++, Julia, or other applicable languages)</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience working across the software / research boundary, preferably in one of the following domains: machine learning, optimization, quantitative trading, power systems research</span></li><li><span style="font-weight:400;">Familiarity with software development best practices, including version control, code reviews, CI/CD, and testing</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience analyzing computational results with tooling such as Jupyter notebooks and matplotlib or equivalent</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Ability to proactively communicate and work cross-functionally to define and implement solutions in a complex technical environment</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">BA / BS / Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering) or equivalent practical experience</span></li></ul><p><strong>Nice to have additional skills</strong></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight:400;">Domain experience in simulation of real-world assets (physical batteries, autonomous vehicles, etc.)</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Working knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure and containerization tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, AWS / GCP / Azure)</span></li><li><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience with SQL-based databases (e.g. PostgreSQL) as well as tools and frameworks for working with databases programmatically (e.g. ORMs, JDBC, etc.)</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience with speed/memory tradeoffs operating over large-scale datasets</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Experience with optimization techniques, modeling packages, and solvers<br></span></li></ul><div><h3><strong>Not sure this is the right role for you?</strong></h3><p><span style="font-weight:400;">We are a high growth company with accelerating hiring needs so there’s a great chance we’ll be able to create a custom role for you, now or in the future. All roles, titles and compensation packages are tailored to the applicant, so apply anyways and tell us in your cover letter about your dream role. </span></p><h3><strong>What we offer</strong></h3><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Equilibrium is composed of deeply knowledgeable industry experts across all our functions, with decades of experience in energy-specific commercial structuring, power systems engineering, machine learning, computational research, operations research, distributed and compute-intensive infrastructure, and modern software &amp; ML engineering. Our experience in the space means we’ve previously built versions of nearly every technical component of our platform. We are now designing them better, and combining them in a holistic and novel way, to achieve global scale and climate impact. We pride ourselves on our deeply empathetic &amp; collaborative culture, honest and direct but respectful communication, and our balanced, flexible, and remote-first work environment. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Employee benefits include: </span></p><ul><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, Canada &amp; Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London</span></li><li style="font-weight:400;"><span style="font-weight:400;">Accelerated professional growth and development opportunities through direct collaboration and mentorship from leading industry expert colleagues across energy and tech</span></li></ul><p><em><span style="font-weight:400;">Equilibrium Energy is a diverse and inclusive, equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.</span></em></p></div>